DuRoWe 75 (INT)

Durowe 75 (INT)
Durowe 75 (INT)

Description

The DuRoWe 75 is a modern, 5 1/2 ligne ladies' form watch movement, which was released 1970, when DuRoWe was already working under the Ebauches S.A. roof - hence the additional name INT.

The construction is classy - as usual on these movements, a shock protected (here in inhouse Duro-Shock bearings) ring balance regulates the pallet lever movement. The balance beats with contemporary fast 21600 A/h. Its hairspring is connected to a moveable hairspring stud and can be regulated in its effective length at the hairspring key only.

A little speciality is, that the bearing of the minute gear on the dial side contains a synthetic ruby and is not made of metal, as usual.

empty main plate
empty main plate

On the view of the empty main plate, you can see, how escapement wheel and fourth wheel overlap and the escapement wheel runs below the higher placed fourth wheel bearing. This space-reducing construction can be found on almost all tiny ladies' watch form movements.

side view
side view

On the side view, you see the higher placed bearing of the fourth wheel and the overlapping escapement wheel.

dial side view
dial side view

The dial side looks familiar, too - of course, this movement also uses a yoke winding system.



Technical data

ManufacturerDuRoWe
Caliber75 (INT)
Number of jewels17
EscapementAnchor with pallets
BalanceNickel
Shock protection(s)Duro-Swing
Balance cock directioncounterclockwise
Hairspring studmoveable
Regulator typeHairspring key
Movement constructionFork
Escapement wheel, Fourth wheel, Third wheel, Center wheel
Mainspring barrel
Construction typesolid construction
Bridge shapeJetski, 4 gears
Winding mechanismyoke
Setting lever spring2 holes
FunctionsHour, minute
Beats per hour21600
Size51/2''' (measured: 12,9 x 15,0 mm)
Production time1970 -
Image in Flume Werksucher K3 77
Factsheet

Timegrapher output

The specimen shown here came completely gummed into the studio, was disassembled completely, cleaned, lubricated and re-assembled afterwards.

On the timegrapher, it shows good results, and if there were not the two runaways on the positions "3 up" and "dial down", it would even run within the chronometer specs. For a form movement of that small size, that's a great performance!

dial down
dial down

dial up
dial up

12 up
12 up

3 up
3 up

6 up
6 up

9 up
9 up

Links
Durowe - Uhrwerke (de) (en) 
Ranfft Uhren: Durowe 75 (de) (en) (in the photos, the version of the AS 1977 is shown)

This movement was donated by Harald Hoeber. Thank you very much!